conor

Hi, I'm trying to make a laser scanner with Max, at the moment I have set up a camera and a light to replicate a laser line in my 3d package. I have made a 100 frame movie and every frame the line and camera move up the figure, This movie is then fed into Max to strip out the position of the brightest pixel in every row in every frame. I will at some stage do the trig to get a better depth reading, but at the moment I'm putting the data into a 3 x 3 x 3 matrix, then into jit.gl.volume to show my results. Ideally I would like to be able to make an .obj file from my results, is this possible and can anyone give me any pointers to improve my patch.

Hi, I'm trying to make a laser scanner with Max, at the moment I have set up a camera and a light to replicate a laser line in my 3d package. I have made a 100 frame movie and every frame the line and camera move up the figure, This movie is then fed into Max to strip out the position of the brightest pixel in every row in every frame. I will at some stage do the trig to get a better depth reading, but at the moment I'm putting the data into a 3 x 3 x 3 matrix, then into jit.gl.volume to show my results. Ideally I would like to be able to make an .obj file from my results, is this possible and can anyone give me any pointers to improve my patch.
Cheers Conor
Patch and quicktime attached


basic laser scanner